Exhibitions:
2021 Apartment17, St Placids, Ramsgate
2019 Exhibitionism, TOC Gotanda Messe, Tokyo
2019 Prufrock, Stretch Gallery, Margate
2018/19 Exhibitionism, ICC, Sydney
2018 The Rolling Stones Pop-Up, Selfridges, London
2018 The Sex Show, Viking Gallery, Margate
2018 Exhibitionism, The Musicians Hall of Fame, Nashville
2018 Nothing from Nothing, Limbo, Margate
2017/18 Exhibitionism, The Palazzo, Las Vegas
2017 Creative Climate Awards, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office, New York
2017 UCA MA Show, Canterbury, Kent
2017 Exhibitionism, Navy Pier Festival Hall, Chicago
2017 Littoral Light II, Ramsgate Arts Festival, Kent
2017 Afternoon Tea, Chiara Williams, Margate Festival, Kent
2016/17 Exhibitionism, Industria, New York
2016 Littoral Light Exhibition, (co-Founder), Ramsgate Arts Festival, Kent
2016 Exhibitionism, The Rolling Stones, Saatchi Gallery, London
2016 Accrochage, Albus 3 Gallery, Northampton
2016 Boy decomposing a tablecloth, Pie Factory, Margate, Kent
2016 Salvage.Restore.Repair, Gallery202
2016 Sweet 'Art Hand Maid, Hoxton Arches, London
2016 Chroma: Red Exhibition, Safehouse 1, London
2015 Susan Fletcher in conversation with Alain Urrutia, Herbert Read Gallery, UCA, Canterbury, Kent
2015 Make/Create, The Crypt Gallery, London (Selected by The Griffin Gallery and the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust)
2015 Soil, Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable, Kent
2014 Thanet Open, Updown Gallery, Ramsgate, Kent
2014 Chiaroscuro, Deesons Gallery, Canterbury, Kent
2014 Light out of Dark, The Brewery Tap. SOLO EXHIBITION, Folkestone, Kent
2014 The Signature Art Prize, National finalist for sculpture, Whitechapel, London
2014 Trouble and Strife, The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury, Kent
2013 A Response to the Nature of Landscape, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent
2013 Subset, George’s House Gallery. Strange Cargo, Folkestone, Kent
2013 MA 2013, The Kirk Gallery, UCA, Canterbury, Kent
2012 The Dreamlife of Debris, Pie Factory, Margate, Kent
Awards:
2015 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, Kent
2014 Royal Society of Sculptors, Bursary Awards, HIGHLY COMMENDED, London
2014 SOLO EXHIBITION, University for the Creative Arts, Folkestone, Kent
2014 NATIONAL FINALIST FOR SCULPTURE, The Signature Art Prize, London
1998 WINNER, Menswear Mohair Design competition, G.F.T, Turin, Italy
1988 FINALIST, Du Pont/Observer National Young Designer Award, London
1988 WINNER, Menswear Uniform Design, Mitchells and Butler, Birmingham
Education:
2013 University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury. MA Fine Art, (Distinction)
1989 Birmingham University, BA Fashion & Textile Design, (First Class Honours)
Biography
Susan Fletcher is a British artist based on the Kent coast.
Initiating her studies in Theatre Design, Susan later progressed into Fashion and Textiles at Birmingham University. After graduating, she worked with leading designers in Paris and London and went on to run her own fashion design label, Fletcher Joyce, with a client list including The Rolling Stones and George Michael. Her fashion creations have been displayed in exhibitions worldwide.
Deciding to continue her studies at the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury, Susan graduated with an MA Fine Art in 2013. She was later invited to develop her love of sculpture and installation during a ten month residency at UCA in 2015 and has since gone on to develop work that has been shown both locally and internationally. She was the co-founder and producer of the hugely successful light exhibitions Littoral Light on Ramsgate’s tidal shores.
Susan’s work explores fragile human conditions through installation, sculpture and light. Her work is a process of becoming comfortable with the uncomfortable. Works are characterised by the use of discarded found objects where she incorporates her hand crafted processes of burning, puncturing, suturing and casting to create altered states. Her attention to detail, which was originally developed as a fashion designer, has been central to her artistic practice through the mediums of large scale installation through to the micro detail in her sculptural constructions.